... state; King Victor Emmanuel ran it. I found that Nationalism played a minor role in the very beginning of Unification but was built up over a number of years. Towards the end of the Unification there were many people setting up nationalist parties trying to bring awareness to the rest of the Italian nation. Through doing this, the country was considered stronger. In 1848 there was a revolution ... in Rome, this revolution help nationalism to increase because many Italians realised how good the unification would be. Unification was a result of opportunism. Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Cavour a...

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... . Once appointed Chancellor of Prussia, Bismarck immediately took an arbitrary role in the government by dismissing the chamber, imposing taxes, and setting himself to the task of reorganizing and strengthening the Prussian army. With many of the liberals in Prussia upset by the actions that Bismarck took, he went to the task of taking their views off of Prussia's internal affairs, and to the external. Not ... only was he able to turn their attention outside of Prussia, but actually support his actions. ... that by unifying Germany, and stabilizing the power struggle in the region. He v...

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